Meta Box Show Hide

Meta Box Show Hide helps you to toggle the visibility of a meta box based on some conditions such as categories, page template or post format.

Meta Box Show Hide is a simplified version of Meta Box Conditional Logic. Meta Box Conditional Logic can control the visibility of custom fields and other HTML elements and supports more types of conditions.

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To add show, hide conditions to your meta box, you need to add parameter show or hide accordingly to the meta box configuration.

Each parameter (show, hide) is an array and has the same following elements:

relation: The logical operator to combine conditions: AND or OR. The default value is OR. Case insensitive. Optional.

If one of the following conditions matched (relation = OR) or all of the following conditions matched (relation = AND), then the meta box is shown or hid.

Parameter	Description
`template`	List of page templates, match if the current page has a page template in the list. Array. Case insensitive. Optional.
`post_format`	List of post formats, match if the current post has a format in the list. Array. Case insensitive. Optional.
`category`	List of categories IDs or names (NO slugs), match if the current post has a category in the list. Array. Case sensitive. Optional.
`taxonomy_slug`	List of custom taxonomy terms' IDs or names (NO slugs). Here `taxonomy_slug` is the slug of the taxonomy (like `section`, `region`, etc.). Match if the current post has a term in the list. Array. Case sensitive. Optional.
`is_child`	Boolean. Match if the current page is a child page or not. Optional.
`input_value`	Array of pairs of CSS selectors and values. Match if the inputs (with specified CSS selector) has the defined value. Note: the `relation` is also applied to rules here. Added in version 0.2.

Since version 4.7, WordPress has added support for post type templates. To make it work with template rule in Show Hide, you need to update to version 1.2.0+ and set the syntax to:

'template' => array( 'post:my-template.php', 'my_post_type:template-one.php' ),

e.g, the value should be in form of post_type:template-file.php. If the post_type: is missing, then the plugin automatically understands that the template is used for pages only.

Sample code

add_filter( 'rwmb_meta_boxes', 'prefix_show_hide_demo_register' );
function prefix_show_hide_demo_register( $meta_boxes ) {
    $meta_boxes[] = array(
        'title'  => 'Meta Box Show Hide Demo: Show',

        // Show this meta box for posts matched below conditions
        'show'   => array(
            // With all conditions below, use this logical operator to combine them. Default is 'OR'. Case insensitive. Optional.
            'relation'    => 'OR',

            // List of page templates (used for page only). Array. Optional.
            'template'    => array( 'tpl/blog.php', 'tpl/homepage.php' ),

            // List of post formats. Array. Case insensitive. Optional.
            'post_format' => array( 'Standard', 'Gallery' ),

            // List of categories IDs or names (NOT slugs). Array. Case sensitive. Optional.
            'category'    => array( 3, 'Unpublished', 'Template' ),

            // Custom taxonomy. Optional.
            // Format: 'taxonomy' => list of term IDs or names (NOT slugs). Array. Case sensitive. Optional.
            'location'    => array( 12, 'USA', 'europe' ),
            'os'          => array( 'Windows', 'mac-os' ),

            // Check if page is a child page
            'is_child' => true,

            // Check the value of selector. Format: array( selector, value )
            // Added in version 0.2
            'input_value'   => array(
                '#hide-demo-mb'              => 'yes',
                '#hide-demo-mb-2'            => 'yes',
                'input[name=hide-demo-mb-3]' => true, // If it's a checkbox then true == checked
            ),
        ),

        'fields' => array(
            array(
                'name' => 'Name',
                'id'   => 'name',
                'type' => 'text',
            ),
        ),
    );

    // 2nd meta box
    $meta_boxes[] = array(
        'title'  => 'Meta Box Show Hide Demo: Hide',

        // Hide this meta box for posts matched below conditions
        'hide'   => array(
            // With all conditions below, use this logical operator to combine them. Default is 'OR'. Optional.
            'relation'      => 'OR',

            // List of page templates. Can be array or comma separated. Optional.
            'template' => array( 'full-width.php', 'left-sidebar.php' ),

            // List of categories IDs or names or slugs. Can be array or comma separated. Optional.
            'category'      => array( 1, 'News' ),

            // Custom taxonomy. Optional.
            // Format: 'taxonomy' => list of terms (can be array or comma separated of IDs or names or slugs)
            'location'      => array( 12, 'USA', 'europe' ),
            'os'            => array( 'Windows', 'mac-os' ),

            // Check if page is a child page
            'is_child' => true,

            // Check the value of selector. Format: array( selector, value )
            // Added in version 0.2
            'input_value'   => array(
                '#hide-demo-mb'              => 'yes',
                '#hide-demo-mb-2'            => 'yes',
                'input[name=hide-demo-mb-3]' => true, // If it's a checkbox then true == checked
            ),
        ),

        'fields' => array(
            array(
                'name' => 'Job',
                'id'   => 'job',
                'type' => 'text',
            ),
        ),
    );

    return $meta_boxes;
}

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